Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears poised to easily win New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, but the question going into a debate-laden weekend is who will finish second. A new NBC/Marist poll shows Romney at 42 percent of the vote, up slightly from 39 percent just a month ago. Libertarian Rep. Ron Paul is second at […]
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Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the early and ongoing establishment favorite for the Republican nomination, was locked in a photo finish Iowa precinct caucus race with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, an asterisk in polls a month ago. Romney needed the last two precincts of the night to best Santorum by an 8-vote margin in a […]
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Gov. Chris Gregoire is slated to declare her support for same-sex marriage on Wednesday morning before a gathering of marriage equality supporters in Olympia. Gregoire is announcing her position on what promises to be a major issue before the upcoming 2012 session of the Washington Legislature. Lawmakers have already adopted sweeping “everything but marriage” laws […]
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Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are in a fluid, too-close-to-call race less than three day before Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, according to a Des Moines Register poll released Saturday night. The Register’s poll, renowned for its accuracy, puts two-time candidate Romney at 24 percent of the vote — almost exactly what the Hawkeye […]
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Ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, hit by millions in negative TV advertising, it back at opponents Ron Paul and Mitt Romney on Tuesday in the final week of campaigning for Iowa’s Jan. 3 presidential caucuses. “I think Ron Paul’s views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American,” Gingrich said in an interview with […]
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An overwhelming 78 percent of Americans approve of President Obama’s decision to end the war in Iraq and bring home U.S. combat troops, according to a new CNN-ORC national poll. Just 21 percent disapprove, despite strong criticism of the troop withdrawal from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and 2008 presidential nominee Sen. John McCain. The […]
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The Newt Gingrich upsurge may prove nothing more than a frost heave in the early presidential test states of Iowa and New Hampshire. A trio of new polls show Gingrich, under relentless fire in Iowa from Mitt Romney’s “SuperPAC”, is rapidly losing support in the ever-changing Republican presidential contest. A new Public Policy Polling (PPP) […]
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The American public agrees with “concerns” raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement but strongly disapproves of tactics used by the protesters, according to a new national Pew Research poll. The poll, conducted Dec. 7-11, asked for opinions on two topics: –”The concerns the protests have raised”: Forty-eight percent of those surveyed agreed, just 30 […]
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Newt Gingrich has seen two-thirds of his lead over Mitt Romney vanish in the past two weeks, according to a new Gallup Poll that daily tracks contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. Gingrich has only a 29-24 percent lead over Romney, down from 37-22 percent at the start of the month, Gallup reported Thursday. Rep. […]
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The “fair and balanced” Fox News Channel is renowned for committing the occasional error of mistakenly identifying a scandal-tarred Republican political figure as a Democrat. After it was revealed in 2006 that Florida’s GOP Rep. Mark Foley had sent sexually-overt e-mail messages to a former House page, Fox flashed a picture identifying him as “Rep. […]
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